I have posted a survey from NWCA executive director Mike Moyer on the High School Forum for Indiana Mat. Would you please take the time to respond to this survey so the NWCA has as much information as possible for some proposals they would like to put forward to help grow our sport.
Thanks for all you do to support wrestling at ALL levels in Indiana.
Dave Cloud
NWCA rep for Indiana

As the Indiana rep for the NWCA, I would like to ask for your help. I would like to have everyone in the wrestling community use the link below to take the survey. I have attached the message from Mike Moyer, executive director of the NWCA. Thank you for your help and please spread the word about this survey. I have also posted it on the Youth page for IndianaMat.
Thanks!
Dave
SUBJECT LINE: Youth Sports Survey
Your opinion is needed and appreciated.
The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) is asking for help from a broad range of groups in doing a comprehensive review of the state of wrestling and your input is needed.
Over the next month the NWCA will collect the results and compile a report which will be published in mid-May.
Below is the link to a survey that will not take more than 3 minutes to complete. Your participation will help improve the experience of thousands of kids considering the sport of wrestling in the future.
Thank you and here is the link.
https://kwiksurveys.com/s/8serhbVH
Sincerely,
Mike Moyer

Congrats to Coach Skinner and Mark Durham and everyone involved in the Southport Frosh/Soph tournament today! You guys did a great job and it was good to get our young wrestlers on the mat. Mr. Durham did a great job setting it up and adjusting along the way to balance the weight classes. PH will be back next year to defend our title. I encourage everyone to make this a part of your schedule for next year. It was a very good experience for our kids.
Dave Cloud

I understand the anxiety you feel about your son participating in a collision sport like football. About a third of my wrestling team plays football. All season long I am like a worried mother for every game. BUT, we have to always remind ourselves that no matter how much time and effort we put into these kids, we don't own them or their non-wrestling time. Some of Indiana's best wrestlers from out state (David Palmer, David Locke, Randall Hayes at Delta; Spero Karas, Joel Stubblefield, Ben McKenney, Donny Sands at PH to name two schools) played football.
But like Danny Struck and others have argued, if we want football coaches to encourage their players to wrestle we need to be willing to make it a two-way street and encourage our wrestlers to play if that is what they want to do. And yes, I have lost my share of wrestlers during the football season. It IS heartbreaking and very hard to take and my selfish instincts tell me to influence the kids to save themselves for wrestling but is the right thing to do for the kids?
By the way, thinking this doesn't make a you a bad person, just a concerned parent, coach or both.
Dave Cloud

Dr. Coyte Cooper, former IU wrestler, speaks about dealing with setbacks and how we can use them to make ourselves stronger and our lives better. If you are not uplifted and excited to improve your life after listening to Coyte speak you are quite possibly dead! I have seen him at NWCA Convention several times and always enjoy his presentation. Also, a very personable guy who has worked hard to promote wrestling with his Best of Brand contests. The link to the talk is below.

We would like to get in a couple of events from December 13-15 or 19-22 with our JV kids. Should be a competitive squad and would be willing entering them in a varsity event. We did this last year and finished third behind only Perry and Warren's JV's at a varsity Super Six.
Please e-mail me at: dcloud@smcsc.com if you have anything. Would be willing to consider wrestling against varsity if you need another team
Thanks,
Dave